Surprisingly, I saw a French car yesterday. It was on the road....well, sort of. As you can see in the picture, it was being transported. It is a Citroën DS. While I have seen some Citroën 2CV's on multiple occasions, both here and in Canada, and my father actually owns a Citroën Traction Avant (it certainly has seen bette days, and has not moved in many, many years), I had never seen a Citroën DS anywhere in North America before, at least not to my best memory.
It came as a surprise, and a pleasant one, just minutes after picking my girlfriend up from Newark Airport after two weeks visiting her family in Poland. We were driving westbound on I-78 when we saw this. At first, I thought it looked like a Citroën DS, but dismissed the idea, since it seemed so improbable. But as I got closer, I saw the distinctive logo of the Citroën brand (two upside down V's), and was excited to finally see one on this side of the Atlantic.
Thought it qualified as important enough to post, since it is such a rarity.
Enjoy!
That's pretty cool, and exceedingly rare as you mentioned. Of course, these days even in Europe you don't see a lot of vintage DS on the road. The logo actually consists of two chevrons, though. From Wikipedia (warning: contains a lot of technological jargon that probably goes over the head of most people, as it did mine):
ReplyDelete"The origin of the logo may be traced back to a trip made by the 22-year-old André Citroën to Łódź city, Poland, where he discovered an innovative design for a chevron-shaped gear used in milling. He bought the patent for its application in steel. Mechanically a gear with helical teeth produces an axial force. By adding a second helical gear in opposition, this force is cancelled. The two chevrons of the logo represent the intermeshing contact of the two. Early Citroën cars used a herringbone bevel gear final drive in the rear axle."
You should instead have said, "to put it in plain English that everyone can understand," and then proceeded with that technical Wikepedia explanation. Could not have been clearer.
DeleteLOL. Point taken. You of course know the cliché, "A picture is worth a thousand words." Please copy and paste this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Citro%C3%ABn#/media/File:Engrenages_-_85.488_-.jpg
ReplyDeleteOther examples would be the Chevron Corporation's logo (I don't think I've seen one of their gas stations in years), or the chevrons featured on certain military uniforms.
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